Lord of the Flies Study Guide



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Chapter 1

1. How did the boys arrive on the island?

2. How did Ralph call the first meeting?

3. What are the names of the twins?

4. What does Ralph's dad do?

5. What nationality are the boys?

6. The island was roughly _______ - shaped.

7. What is the "scar?"

8. For whom did Piggy vote as chief?

9. Who went to make sure the island was really an island? (three boys)

a. b. c.

10. Who said, “Next time…” What is he referring to?

11. Who is your favorite character so far?

12. On your own paper, describe in as much detail as has been given so far, each of the following characters. Leave extra space to add more information later.

a. Ralph b. Piggy c. Jack d. Simon e. Roger f. Samneric (Sam & Eric)

Chapter 2

1. Who is the only one who may interrupt the speaker holding the conch?

2. Who saw the beast/beastie/snake-like thing?

3. Who says, again and again that there isn't a beast?

4. On Page 37, Ralph makes a two-fold "mission statement." What are the two parts?

a. b.

5. Why do they need a fire?

6. What did the boys use to start the fire?

7. Who is missing at the end of the chapter? What can you infer has happened to him?

Who said it? Explain significance. (Remember to indicate page numbers)

8. "How do you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?"

9. "I told you to. I told you to get a list of names!"

10. "We'll have rules! Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks 'em-"

11. “Acting like a bunch of kids!”

12. “Not for the two of us.”

Explain the significance of the quote:

13. “To keep a clean flag of flame flying on the mountain was the immediate end, and no one looked further.”

Chapter 3

1. What is Jack doing as the chapter opens (be specific)?

2. Ralph and _________ are building huts.

3. Why can't Jack get the pig to stay on his spear?

4. All the hunters but Jack have gone where?

5. Who helps the littluns get fruit?

6. At the end of the chapter, where does Simon go?

Who Said it? Explain significance. (Indicate page number)

7. "We want meat!"

8. "I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you talk about it pig, pig, pig!"

9. "I thought I might kill"

Chapter 4

1. Who are the three “little-uns” playing on the beach? How are their days different from those of the bigger boys?

a. b. c.

2. Who "still felt the unease of wrongdoing?"

3. Who was affected by the "taboo of the old life?"

4. How was Jack "liberated from the shame of self-consciousness?"

5. Why did the "littluns" always obey the summons of the conch?

6. Why did Jack want Samneric to get him a coconut?

7. Why weren't the boys rescued?

8. Why were the littluns used to "Stomach aches and a sort or chronic diarrhea?"

9. Who is the only boy whose hair never seems to grow? (This could symbolize that he is more civilized than the others.)

Who said it? Explain significance.

10. "You don't half look a mess"

11. "They don't smell me. They see me, I think. Something pink, under the trees."

Chapter 5

1. What is "Taken short?"

2. What does Ralph think they ought to do before they let the fire go out?

3. Who scared the littlun by walking around in the jungle at night?

4. Who are the two littluns who hold the conch and speak about the beast at the assembly?

Who said it? Explain significance.

5. "The thing is, we need an assembly."

6. "Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!"

7. "Life....is scientific, that's what it is."

8. "What I mean is... maybe it's only us."

9. "What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?"

10. How did Piggy's specs get broken (71)?

Chapters 6

1. What was the "sign that came down from the world of the grown-ups?"

2. Who saw the "beast" on top of the mountain?

3. What do the boys decide to do when Ralph calls a meeting?

4. How does Simon imagine the beast?

5. Once they get to Castle Rock, who goes up to find the beast? Why is it important that he is the one to go and see?

6. What does Ralph want to do as soon as they’ve gotten to the top of Castle Rock? What do the other boys want to do?

Who Said It? Explain significance.

4. "I don't believe in the beast."

5. "We want smoke. And you go wasting your time. You roll rocks."

Chapter 7

1. Who hit the boar with his spear?

2. Who got hurt playing the role of the pig?

3. Who went through the forest alone to tell Piggy that the group hunting the beast wouldn't be back until after dark?

4. Who climbed the mountain to look for the beast? (three boys)

a. b. c.

5. What do they find at the top?

Explain the significance of the quote:

6. He too, was “fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.”

 Chapter 8

 1. Who called the first assembly?

2. During the assembly, how many voted that Ralph shouldn't be chief?

3. On page 140 the hunters get a new name. What is it?

4. The group of boys looked at it with affectionate respect. What was it?

Who said it? Explain significance.

5. "I'm not going to play any longer. Not with you."

6. "I think we ought to climb the mountain."

7. "We'll hunt and I'm going to be chief"

8. "The head is for the beast, it's a gift."

9. "I'd like to put on war-paint and be a savage. But we must keep the fire burning."

10. "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill."

11. "You knew didn't you? I'm part of you?"

 Chapter 9

 1. What was the "cannon" that "continued to play" throughout chapter 9?

2. Who sat, like an idol, painted and garlanded, in the center of the lawn?

3. During the party, evening had come, not with calm beauty, but with the

4. At the party, who acted like the pig?

5. What happened to the parachutist?

6. Who was killed because the boys thought he was the beast?

7. What happened to the body on the beach?

Who said it? Explain significance.

8. "Do our dance! Come on! Dance!"

9. "Let them go. I don't care."

10. "P'raps we ought to go too...I mean to make sure nothing happens"

 Chapter 10

1. What were Samneric doing in the beginning of the chapter?

2. On page 157, what is Ralph frightened of?

3. Who went with Jack to take fire from the others?

4. Before they were attacked, what did Ralph "desperately pray?"

5. Who was Ralph fighting in the dark?

6. What did Jack take from the others?

Who said it? Explain significance.

7. "That was murder"

8. "We don't want another night w/out fire"

9. "I thought they wanted the conch"

Chapter 11

 1. Who "protested out of the heart of civilization?"

2. Who killed Piggy?

3. How did Piggy die?

Who said it? Explain significance.

4. "After all we aren't savages really, and being rescued isn't a game."

5. "Well, we won't be painted, because we aren't savages."

6. You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!"

7. "See? See? That's what you'll get! I meant that! There isn't a tribe anymore! The conch is gone-"

8. "Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?"

 Chapter 12

1. Who was the "savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt?"

2. Why would "bathing [Ralph's] injuries have to wait?"

3. What did Ralph do to the "Lord of the flies?"

4. Who had the "memory of a new and shameful loyalty?"

5. Who sharpened a stick on both ends intending to use it on Ralph?

6. How did they try to get Ralph out of the thicket?

7. Ralph had 3 different strategies for 'escaping' the hunters. What were they?

a.

b.

c.

Who said it? Explain significance.

10. "Nobody killed, I hope? Any dead bodies?"

11. "They are going to hunt you tomorrow."  

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